Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Vol.18 No.2(Mar. 2003)

CONTENTS

Special Issue:``Intelligent Manufacturing Systems: IMS''
  Editor's Introduction to``NTCIR from the View Point of Participant''
	........................................................ Shingi Yoshioka 107

  IMS Program: Its Past, Present and Future
	............................. Eiji Arai, Toshio Tanaka and Toshio Tamura 108

  Systematization of Production Engineering Knowledge
    for Process/Facility Design
	................... Masayoshi Fuse, Masakazu Kashiwase and Syuji Shinoki 114

  Group Theory of Production System in Use of Active Data
	............................................. Junichi Yagi and Eiji Arai 119

  Next Generation Manufacturing System ........ Nobuo Sasaki, Hisaya Watanabe,
	                   Shinji Hasebe, Kazuhiro Aoyama and Toshiyuki Miyamoto 124

  Modeling-Environment 
    for Integrated Design Support through Product Life Cycle
	.... Fumihiko Kimura, Shozo Takata, Hiroyuki Hiraoka, Shigeru Kobayashi, 
	                 Masahiro Okamoto, Koji Kawashima and Yoichiro Ohbayashi 131

  Technology and Knowledge Infrastructure ...................... Koichi Shibao 138


Special Issue:``Astro-Boy''
  Editor's Introduction to``Astro-Boy'' .................... Hitoshi Matsubara 144

  Frankenstein and Ugly Duckling:
    What Makes the Difference between Astro-Boy and the Monster?
        ......................................................... Osamu Sakura 145

  Life-Style and Mind of Astro-Boy ............................ Shigeki Sugano 152

  Astro-Boy from a Viewpoint of Artificial Intelligence
	...................................................... Hitoshi Matsubara 159


Survey Papers
  Introduction to the Basic Idea of J. J. Gibson's Ecological Psychology:
    From``Stimulus''to``Information'' ....................... Hiroyuki Mishima 163


A Survey of Recent Clustering Methods for Data Mining(Part 2)
  --Challenges to Conquer Giga Data Sets and the Curse of Dimensionality--
	.................................................... Toshihiro Kamishima 170


Serial Survey Papers: AI Technologies for Practical Systems (7)
  Applying Multimodal Knowledge Technology to Museum Guidance Service
	............................................. Masaru Suzuki, Mika Fukui,
                 Takayuki Miyazawa, Kouji Urata, Hiroko Fujii and Toshiki Kizu 177


Lecture Series: Object Modeling in Philosophy and AI Research (7)
  Knowledge Representation from the Modeling Point of View
	............... Riichiro Mizoguchi, Mitsuru Ikeda and Yoshinobu Kitamura 183


Technical Papers Abstract .................................................... 193


My Bookmark
  My Bookmark on Image Processing, Image Understanding, and Multimedia
	........................................................ Yuichi Nakamura 200

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